ISEA2012 Art Event Overview

In this selection of experimental films, filmmakers stretch the limits of form, subject and technology. From various camera techniques and post production experiments, to appropriating footage from Google Street View, these works live in the edge of contemporary filmmaking.

This selection of contemporary documentary films contrasts urban and rural experience and presents various interventions that challenge this dichotomy and offers alternative modes of living in a rapidly changing environment.

This selection of new animations highlights both manual and digital modes of production as well as hybrid forms. The films cover a variety of themes and subjects, from examining contemporary issues of international deforestation to fantastical visions of our futures on other planets.

This looped program during the ISEA2012 Latin American Forum features a selection of videos from the Low Lives networked performance series, curated by Jorge Rojas. The program includes performance videos from over 30 international artists as they were streamed live. The themes they address are widely varied, but they all explore aspects of human and social makeup, and our relationship with technology. Artists include Annie Abrahams, Lukas Avendaño, Tzitzi Barrantes, Profesor Bazuco, Black & Jones, The Emerge Collective, Tutu-Marambá, Kristin Lucas, Marisol Salanova, Rosa Sanchez & Alain Baumann, Second Front, and Martin Zet among others. 

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Curated for ISEA2012, Currents 2012 is represented with a looped single channel screening. Curated by Parallel Studios, Currents, Santa Fe International Media Festival, explores the role of technology and the diverse applications of new media in the arts. This year’s festival showcases single channel video, video and sound installation, interactive new media, animation, computer modulated sculpture, multimedia performance, experimental and interactive documentary video, Digital Dome projection, art gaming and art web.

Parallel Studios (non-profit) has been producing, curating and designing small and large scale currents video exhibitions in Santa Fe (NM, USA) since 2002.  currentsnewmedia.org/about-us